Infestation- July 11, 2011
I came home this evening and opened the cabinet in the kitchen where we keep all of the things we only sort of knew existed a year ago. You know, Dr. Brown’s bottles, Munchkin bowls and spoons, Born Free training cups, and Medela breast shields.
I had to look twice. There were hundreds of them. I grabbed one of Charlotte’s bottles to fill and I felt them crawling up my hand. Her bottle was covered in ants. Freaking ants! Some were crawling in circles, others marching in their lines.
I told Greyson, “There must be remnants of my breast milk on the bottle and they were seeking the divine juice!” He said, “Yeah, that’s great. They’re gonna die!”
We pulled everything out of the cabinet and started scrubbing. Greyson didn’t want to spray Raid around our baby, our dog, and our food. He sprayed it on a paper towel and wiped everything out, killing the little buggers. As I scrubbed Dr. Brown’s useless rubber stoppers I would hear him say, “I spotted a brave rogue, but he’s gone now! (evil laugh)” We boiled water to sanitize all of her stuff. I only melted one teether. I consider that a victory. We refuse to put her stuff back in the cabinet until we know it’s safe from ants and from Raid. I’m home sick with a sore throat and laryngitis tomorrow, so we’re calling the exterminator first thing.
Oh, this comes after the broken washing machine this weekend. I feel like the Clampetts! Did they ever have an ant infestation? Surely not in Beverly Hills, right? I’m sure Granny would have a recipe for breast milk and ant soup or something.
“When all the little ants are marching
Red and black antennas waving
They all do it the same
They all do it the same way.”
-Dave Matthews Band
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I hate that everything is going wrong for you! Ants, being sick, dead washing machine…sigh.
ugh.. we have ants.. luckily they are staying on the counter near the sink and we have ant traps around there and it hasnt gotten too bad. our spring infestation of some kind of bug almost sent me into a pregnant rage because my BABY WASNT COMING HOME TO AN INFESTED HOUSE. thankfully, my husband saw one ant on Isla's arm and went all protective daddy about the ants ha.
Everyone around me has ants right now! We've been having a problem all summer. We've got those little sticky pad things. I read somewhere to buy a couple of different brands because they each have a different kind of smell or taste & different ants are attracted to different ones. So we're giving that a try because we didn't want to spray in the kitchen.
It's awful, but Isis has now become a little ant killer. She will see an ant on the floor & go get a shoe & hit it. Gross that we're having the problem, but funny that she'll do that!
We had ants invading our dishwasher..not sure how..but I read on the Internet to use vinegar so I bought a whole big jug and did a wash..and they never returned..
Oh my god… I hate HATE ants. They creep me out… all of them moving around franticly waiting to bite. I hope they are all gone!